Car dealer to team up with Microsoft

Britain's largest car dealership group Pendragon says it is to provide services for MSN Carview, an independent car-buying and ownership website which will be launched in March.

Pendragon says by integrating customer support and telephone services with an online buying service, MSN Carview will offer consumers all makes of cars, provided by UK dealers, with full manufacturer warranties and latest UK specifications.

The car dealership and Microsoft Corp will develop and maintain MSN Carview's customer operations centre, offering a range of customer management and communication services including online user assistance and query handling.

Carview will be a sister site to the leading US automotive site Carpoint.com (www.carpoint.com), which Pendragon says is visited by more car buyers than any other site on the web.

The UK site will be at www.carview.co.uk.